Sidetracking here: care to elaborate? I know next to nothing about all this, my only association with Snowden is "Hackerish dude hailed as a superhero for David-vs-Goliathing against governments".

I can't wait for this. Not usually a big fan of Franco/Rogers stuff, but this one should be great. Solid material to work with, the whole The Room phenomenon is just so intruiguing. Franco is barely recognizable as Wiseau.

(not participating; I just wanted to drop this)

Know your guitar tunings, kids.

The Fleet Foxes are hard to define, because I think they're absolutely unique. You could say they're folk music, but really, they're doing their own thing. They're a Seattle band that comes and goes depending on what they feel like doing. They hadn't released anything since 2011, and got back together for a new release that got out only a few weeks ago.

My girlfriend introduced me to them a few months ago and they've quickly become a major influence for me and what defines me in music. There's a purity and intensity in the emotions they communicate through their vocal harmonies and instrumental work that I've never seen anywhere else. Robin Pecknold's (founding member, lead singer and sole writer) voice is absolutely incredible. He's a very inspiring guy. Socially anxious, he has a world of his own and fully expresses himself through his music. Starting live performances was very hard for him, but he does it 150%. We're seeing them next november and it hurts to wait until then.

Mykonos is probably my favourite, because when the second part kicks in, followed by the powerful "You go wherever you go today", it pretty much makes my heart escape my body and start a life of its own.

Same thing with the instrumental Heard Them Stirring which gives me visions of... mystical mountains. I don't know. It speaks to me.

And a last one, because White Winter Hymnal is probably their most famous.

If nothing else, if you're a sucker for incredible vocal harmonies like I am, you absolutely need to listen to everything they do. They're on Spotify.

PS: Shut up Martin.

Yeah, just ask them for the Black Lodge starter pack.

(a rumor says your your room might disappear for the next 25 years, but I wouldn't pay it much credit)

We discussed this a while ago. If Teague is down for the modeling of the ship, then I'd be happy to create some sort of realistic environment rendering (such as a looping shot of the asteroid situation to use as video support for the episodes).

I like this one. He seems likeable. I like him.

I'd love to hang out, even more so if you're a motion designer and storyboard artist, but since I'm 5,506 miles from you, this probably won't happen anytime soon. But we have a forum! Yay!

"What the fuck?"

Yes, strange premise. The trailer promises the weirdest film you've seen in a while: Paul Dano stranded on an island, finds a dead Daniel Radcliffe whom through bonding he can slowly bring back to life (and be multi-purpose: work as a fart-propelled speedboat, shoot stuff from his mouth, you name it).

Yes, it is that weird. But behind all this is a very deep film about embracing your weirdness and every part of you you're repressing in front of a judging society. It is a very intimate indie movie brilliantly acted, absurd, and dramatic. The directors said they wanted to make a movie where "the first fart makes you laugh and the last fart makes you cry." I think this nicely encapsulates what this movie is: much more than a 1h37 fart joke.

I'm not even sorry.

I will not be fooled twice. I haven't forgotten Prometheus, Ridley. And this trailer is promising the same thing: incredible visuals, lame-ass script. This one doesn't even seem to try doing anything new. "Let's come to this remote planet, find a weird old wreckage, find weird stuff, then out pops an alien, or maybe several, and we're screwed, lol".

Cool insider VFX fact, though : there was a daily at one of the studios working on this flick that was dedicated to... the alien's dick. Yes, the alien has a winkle. And the daily was pretty much three renderings of the dick in different sizes, to decide which one to keep.